Welcome to June. The season of smoke and fire and killer heat is here.

H.R. 1, The One Big Brutal Bill

The oil-backed U.S. Chamber of Commerce is spending millions to promote Trump’s $4 trillion Big Brutal Bill, which has been endorsed by Chevron, Occidental, American Exploration and Production Council, the Energy Equipment & Infrastructure Alliance, the Independent Petroleum Association of America, the Interstate Natural Gas Association of America, the Center for LNG, and the American Petroleum Institute.

On Monday morning, Rev. William Barber and other clergy are gathering, first at St. Mark's Episcopal Church at 9 am, and from there in front of the Supreme Court at 11 am, for Moral Mondays: Moral Witness United Against an Immoral Budget.

On Tuesday, the Sunrise Movement is leading No Deal for Big Oil Billionaires, a day of action against Trump’s Big Brutal Bill. At 10:30 am, the climate activists are meeting at Capitol Hill Presbyterian Church, before a press conference at Capitol Hill at noon. There will be actions at the capitol throughout the day targeting members of Congress who can stop Trump’s deal with big oil billionaires.

On Thursday at 6 pm, the Chesapeake Climate Action Network is hosting an online training for lobbying Senate staff on the issue of protecting the clean energy tax credits which the Big Brutal Bill would eliminate. Four Republican senators have expressed skepticism of a full repeal, for whatever that is worth.

Senate Republicans are hoping to jam the climate-injustice omnibus through its chamber in the next few weeks. Dubbing it the “One Ugly Bill,” Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) vowed that Senate Democrats will “fight it with everything we've got.” However, he made similar vows about the continuing resolution, while working for its passage.

The Senate won’t be voting as previously expected this week on the confirmation of Jared Isaacman to be administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. On Saturday, Trump unexpectedly pulled the nomination of the tech billionaire, a friend and supporter of Elon Musk and SpaceX.

FY26 Budget

The Trump regime has released its detailed budget plan for fiscal year 2026, putting the rancid meat on the “skinny” budget released a month ago. The comprehensive blueprint is not designed to be easily parsed by the public, but is the specific guidance for what Trump wants Congressional appropriators to do as they mark up the FY2026 spending bills from now through July.

NOAA

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and its National Weather Service is being gutted, with deeper cuts to come in the fiscal year 2026 budget, as dozens of climate scientists and meteorologists bravely detailed in the 100-hour Weather and Climate Livestream, which ended Monday afternoon. A few of the many participants: Ben Santer, Ralph Keeling, Kim Cobb, Jeff Masters, Bernadette Woods Placky, John Morales, and Marshall Shepherd.

NOAA also regulates American fisheries. The House Natural Resources Committee is holding a hearing on Wednesday morning in support of a Trump executive order in April calling on the Secretary of Commerce to strip away environmental protections and oversight of the fisheries.

Trump’s FY26 budget eliminates NOAA’s climate science arm, the Office of Atmospheric Research, as well as the Pacific Coastal Salmon Recovery Fund.

Commerce Secretary Howie Lutnick appears before Congress this week to defend Trump’s FY26 budget for the Department of Commerce, including NOAA and NWS. He appears before Senate appropriators at 10 am Wednesday and before House appropriators at 11 am Thursday.

Meanwhile, supporters of NOAA are rallying in front of the Department of Commerce headquarters Wednesday afternoon at 5:30 pm.

Agriculture and Forests

At 10:30 am on Thursday is the subcommittee markup of the FY26 Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies bill. Trump’s request eviscerates conservation programs, scientific research, rural development, food assistance, and protection of national forests. Meanwhile, the House Agriculture conservation subcommittee holds a hearing on conservation and agriculture.

Tuesday At 3 pm, the Senate agriculture committee interviews a litigious Trump donor, Michael Boren, the nominee to be Under Secretary of Agriculture for Natural Resources and Environment, who oversees the U.S. Forest Service. Boren is notorious in Idaho for his and his brother David’s litigious treatment in defense of Hell Roaring Ranch, their dude ranch on the edge of Idaho’s Sawtooth National Forest. He treats the national forest as if it were his personal property, building an illegal cabin, private airstrip, and suing to block the construction of public trails.

Other Hearings

On Wednesday at 2 pm, the cartoonish DOGE subcommittee of House Oversight led by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) is holding a show trial against liberal foundations and non-profit organizations with right-wing non-profit activists, including Mark Krikorian, Daniel Turner, and Scott Walker. Krikorian runs an anti-immigrant hate group; Turner is a Republican operative and professional climate denier; and Walter runs a right-wing opposition research group and is a professional climate denier.

On Thursday at 10:30 am, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee holds a markup of bipartisan legislation on foreign mining deals (S.1463), foreign nuclear energy deals (S.1801), and other matters.